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Editor’s Note

PMI global study shows that companies and specifically executive leaders underestimate the importance of applying efficient project management practices to drive successful implementation of business strategies. As a result, organizations waste resources and billions of Euros per year that can be invested to gain competitive advantage and increase shareholders’ value. I believe that we have a duty as project managers to bring awareness to our organizations on this topic. It is vital to communicate effectively that managing projects following international standards and frameworks will increase the chance to achieve our project targets in terms of budget, scope, time and benefits. In few words, a proper planning of our projects is the need of the time. Benjamin Franklin, former American president, once said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail’’.

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Newsletter April, 2018 | www.pmi-netherlands-chapter.org |

In This issue...

Editor's Note PMI EMEA Congress (Berlin) Recent PMI certified members Events Calendar Overview Project Management in Action ☺ PMI Netherlands Summit 2018 -

7th edition PMI Global: $1 Million Wasted

Every 20 Seconds By Organizations Around the World

PMI Global: Status Reporting: Your Personal Brand

Help Wanted / Volunteers PM Fair: BE Annual Congress Our Sponsors Month’s Newsletter Contributors Let’s Stay in Touch

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Congratulations to Recent PMI Certified Members

Events Calendar Overview

Link to Event calendar on Chapter website

Project Management in Action ☺

Name Credential

Mathieu WOHLHUTER CAPM

Monique Klaver PMP

Peter Keeble PMP

Rinze Tjoelker PMP

Roel Kemp PMP

Stefan Ingelmann CAPM

Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D. PMP

Thierry Jans PMP

Xu Wang PMP

Name Credential

Alfred Gieltjes PMI-ACP

Andre Smorenburg PMP

Auke Bosscher PMP

Bjorn De Haan CAPM

Erik Eppinga PMP

Franco Dackus PMI-ACP

John Bemelen PMP

Lars Bessems PMI-ACP

Marek Veselka PMI-ACP

Martijn Hageman CAPM

April 23 - 26 Global: SeminarsWorld® in Minneapolis More info

May 7 - 9 10 – 11 15 30

Global: PMI EMEA Congress 2018 in Berlin Global: SeminarsWorld® in Berlin NL: May Chapter Event at Utrecht NL: 14e Project Portfolio Management Jaarcongres

More info More info More info More info

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PMI Netherlands Summit 2018 - 7th edition

After the successful last edition of the PMI Netherlands Summit, the PMI Netherlands Chapter in co-creation with CKC Seminars are preparing for the 7th edition on September 20th 2018 in Conference Center ‘t Spant in Bussum, the Netherlands. Central theme of the 2018 edition is:

It is all about the human factor in project management! People drive Change This era is about disruption, the digital transformation, lean start-ups, minimum viable products, IoT, Agile leadership, SCRUM,

scaled Agile framework and the ongoing need to innovate and transform your organization to a 4, 5 or even 6.0 version and what

have you. Key to success and even to succeed are projects, agility and continuous change. The latest PMI Pulse of the

Profession® confirms this, indicating that high performing organizations build the capability and capacity to change and adapt

quickly to shifting market conditions and competitive pressures. And where does that capacity reside? In the very human beings

who struggle valiantly to deal with all this change. When we look for the reasons that a project succeeds or fails, we usually come up with a complex cocktail of aspects:

communication, resources, objectives, priorities, scope and on and on. And we tend to overlook the most important, the most

powerful foundation which determines whether a project works or not: the human factor! 90% of crisis management focuses on

the human factor. When a project is incredibly successful we discover again and again that the secret ingredient is engaging

people working towards a shared goal. And what is so difficult and mysterious about that? You are about to find out. In this PMI

Netherlands Summit, the human factor, the people drivers and ongoing developments in this area, in an agile and continuously

changing world, will hold the center stage.

We will explore the human factor from different viewpoints: 1. The changing role of the project manager. Reinventing PM Leadership. The individual viewpoint.

2. Building high performing and successful cross-cultural teams, across the globe. The team viewpoint.

3. Engaging customers. The secret of Agile? The stakeholder viewpoint.

4. Co-operating with suppliers revisited. Keep competing or….? The supplier viewpoint.

5. What new behavior do we need to embrace and work with new project approaches? How to organize ourselves? A

viewpoint from the rapidly changing digital world.

During the Summit we will explore the influence of the human factor in real world cases, scientific views and workshops to

sharpen your awareness and insights on this important, valuable and often neglected area. Furthermore we will explore what the

critical people drivers are and how these drive business value. Invitation call for papers

You’re invited to become a part of the leading conference on Project Management by submitting an innovative best practice or

workshop corresponding with our themes. If you would submit a valuable suggestion, take a look into the conditions and submit

your paper before April 30th 2018. The program board will review the papers on content and connections with the conference themes plus the way you will contribute

in achieving the objective mentioned above. Submitters will receive a notification of acceptance no later than May 15th. We assume

you’ll be available for the entire conference day so together we can explore “Project Management 0.5 – a reconstruction of Project

Management”. Duration of the sessions is 40 minutes (including questions).

Interested in visiting PMI Netherlands Summit?

Not submitting a paper, but interested in a PMI Netherlands Summit ticket?

Early birds will receive a € 50,- discount! Register before May 31st and visit this unique Conference for only € 345! PMI

members will get a special discount, visit the registration form here. Twitter with us #pmisumnl

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PMI Global

$1 Million Wasted Every 20 Seconds By Organizations Around the World

The 2018 Pulse of the Profession®, a global survey conducted by Project Management Institute (PMI), reveals around $1 million is wasted every 20 seconds collectively by organizations around the globe due to the ineffective implementation of business strategy through poor project management practices. This equates to roughly $2 trillion dollars wasted a year. The study shows that on average organizations waste 9.9 percent of every dollar due to poor project performance, and that around one in three projects (31 percent) do not meet their goals, 43 percent are not completed within budget, and nearly half (48 percent) are not completed on time. Alarmingly, executive leaders may be out of touch with this reality, as 85 percent surveyed said they believe their organizations are effective in delivering projects to achieve strategic results. These factors are leading to colossal financial losses for businesses around the world, with a significant broader macro-economic impact.

“Project management is the driver of strategy, but organizations are failing to bridge the gap between strategy design and its delivery,” said Mark A. Langley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project Management Institute. “Effective project management to implement an organizations’ business strategy is key, and has a significant impact on the bottom line." (…) “There is a powerful connection between effective project management and financial performance,” continued Langley. “Organizations that are ineffective with project management waste 21 times more money than those with the highest performing project management capabilities. But the good news is that by leveraging some proven practices, there is huge potential for organizations to course correct and enhance financial performance.” In an era of increased financial scrutiny, shifting competitive pressures, and business disruption from evolving technology, the survey results point to five critical factors that can help organizations drive performance through more effective implementation of strategy.

✓ Executive Sponsor Engagement is the Top Driver of Effective Strategy Delivery ✓ Greater Connection Between Strategy Design and Delivery ✓ Optimize Investment in Strategy Implementation ✓ Leverage Disruption – Don’t Just React to It – Get Agile ✓ Define and Track Success Metrics

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PMI Global

Status Reporting: Your Personal Brand

We all know that how you present yourself determines to a great degree how you will be perceived by others—and how they will in turn respond to you. When you take pride to present yourself professionally, the world responds accordingly—mirroring back to you the same level of respect you have for yourself. It's all about personal branding, right? In the world of project and program management, you as the project or program manager are afforded an opportunity to promote your own personal brand on a routine basis—and that comes with the project/program status report! I am always shocked to see how many skilled project practitioners fail to truly take advantage of this opportunity or, even worse, help to degrade their own personal brand through sloppy and poorly structured stakeholder communications on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Here are some effective ways for you as PM to up your game and promote your personal brand in a positive manner via your project status report:

1. Always use an executive summary at the top of your e-mail project status report. You do not want to be that person that forces your most senior executives to have to pore over the entire status report and any attachments to hopefully glean the essence of what it is you are trying to communicate. Make it easy for executives to pick up on salient points at a glance so they can move on to other pressing tasks they have on their calendar. Use a single-line, bulletined format for the summary to again make the necessary impact for quick processing of the information:

2. Use bold font and/or italics to highlight certain words or phrases that you wish to emphasize in your messaging. Use appropriate indentation to improve the legibility and provide alignment for bullets or sub-bullets in your overall status report. This helps to improve overall aesthetics and presents you in a more professional and considerate light to your stakeholders. Use spellcheck before hitting “send” and be hyper-vigilant that the status report conveys the message you wish to report as to the current status of your project and/or program (while simultaneously quietly communicating volumes about you and your personal brand!).

3. Pre-empt the more obvious questions that your executive stakeholders may ask when reading your status report—

and take the necessary steps to answer those questions proactively (now!). For example, if you were to report "Base Station #4 didn't explode last Tuesday as was projected," it would be safe to imagine that executives may respond to you with some or all of the following questions:

• "What the heck, dude?”

• "What is going on with Base Station #4?"

• "Are you on some strong medication?"

• "When do you envision it will explode then?"

These are all legitimate questions and concerns given the type of open-ended statement you reported. A much better way to communicate this would be: "Cabling problem found earlier on Base Station #4 was corrected last week, thus completely mitigating concerns raised about possible fire hazard. A thorough audit of all remaining Base Stations is currently underway, to be completed by noon today—with any faulty cables corrected before COB. Customer ABC truly appreciates our proactive efforts to resolve this problem 100%."

4. Sell your capability as a senior PM or program manager via your routine project status report. You are being paid to

solve problems for your immediate internal customers, all external stakeholders and the end user or client. Be absolutely certain that the tone and content of your reporting is communicating that you are a capable, competent and highly skilled project professional, demonstrating for all stakeholders that you have complete control over all aspects of your assignment. All risks or critical issues highlighted should be accompanied by clear steps that you and your project/program team are taking to resolve them—or proactively mitigating risks such that all cost/quality/schedule objectives are all still able to be fulfilled. You should never come off as a "victim," someone who cannot affect the needed change to get the job done (or cannot gain control of outside factors influencing your immediate program). You are being paid to solve problems and deliver results, so do so! If you use the project status report to whine, wallow in "woe is me" or in any way give up your power and authority, it will jump off the page. Not only will that seriously tarnish your personal brand, it will alarm your stakeholders—and have them questioning whether they need to seek a more capable leader to right the ship.

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5. Don't leave critical charts or data buried in an attached spreadsheet or slide deck—especially when making such data easily visible in the body of your report would be much more impactful and considerate of your audience (most importantly any harried members of the executive staff who may need to absorb the status quickly and move on with other business). Below your executive summary is an ideal location to enhance the message with a copy of a critical schedule, data graphic or other piece of vital schematic information. You could simply cut and paste a table from your slides and add it here in the body of the mail. I often use the "snipping tool" to capture a picture of some key data that I feel would help tell the story/key message that I wish to convey—and put it up front so that it doesn’t get lost in any attachments.

So, let's be very cognizant of the power of project/program status reports. They not only communicate an effective message pertaining to the health and prospects of your current assignment, but also say something about you—the individual project manager, program manager, portfolio manager or PMO manager. Personal branding is key in today's gig economy—and we are all our own individual corporations selling our consulting services in the market. Whether we are currently working a three- to six-month freelance contract or for the same company for 10-plus years, the power of your own personal brand cannot be overstated. Protect it at all costs—and enhance it with each and every opportunity you get. Status reports are a fantastic vehicle for making your mark…don't squander it!

Adapted from: ProjectManagement.com, March 30, 2018, by Brian Anthony O'Malley

Help Wanted - Volunteer Positions Regional PM Network and Drink Meeting Organizers: To organize informal PM Network and drink meetings to discuss PM related subjects; Promote PMI, PMI NLCH in your region and feedback suggestions and subjects to the chapter. Interested?

Please contact: membership@pmi-netherlands-chapter.org

Event Coverage volunteer: We are looking for create a group of volunteers that regularly visit the chapter events and are willing to write a short summary for that chapter event. We will strive to it that it will result that a person has to write 1-2 times per year a summary. So a group of 5-6 persons or more would be great. Volunteers to contact events@pmi-netherlands-chapter.org

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PM Fair

PMI Belgium Annual Congress

Theme: Facilitation: The Ultimate PM Skill?

The event will be set up like a Fair and will offer a

fertile ground for professional interaction, networking

and knowledge sharing. It will provide an opportunity

to exchange ideas, opinions, values and best

practices with professionals from different industries/organizations in an informal

environment. It will encourage active participation in various PM roles at special

booths. It will also allow sponsors/authors to demonstrate their products or

services to a targeted group of professionals. In nutshell, it will be a very special,

very dynamic and a very friendly “Market” of Project Management.

As Project Management is not limited to any particular business segment or

industry, we want to broaden our horizon with this concept to welcome

practitioners, academicians, speakers, writers, lecturers, recruiters as well as

sponsors from different organizations, industries, professions, universities, etc.

And icing on the cake, this year, we’ll also

celebrate during the PM Fair the 20th Anniversary

of the PMI Belgium Chapter.

Early bird registration will open soon. For More

Information, click here

Venue: Proximus Lounge – rue Stroobantsstraat, 51 – 1140 Evere (Brussels)

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Current Sponsors of the Chapter

Want to become our Sponsor? Please check our website for more information.

This Month’s Newsletter Contributors

✓ Keith Mitchell, Chief Operations Officer

✓ Anthony Sichra, Editor – Newsletter

✓ Program committee of the PMI NL Summit 2018

✓ Jan Cardol, Chief Executive Officer

✓ Rommert Stellingwerf, Past President

✓ Paul van der Wilt, Secretary

✓ Vikram Srivastava, Director – Marketing and Communications

https://www.doyouscrum.com/

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